New book sketches Pope’s dream for a post-COVID world
Excerpts from the Crux report:
The pope argued that the root of the sin of abuse is “failing to respect the value of a person.”
“I cannot stay silent over 30 to 40 million unborn lives cast aside every year through abortion,” the pope said. “It is painful to behold how in many regions that see themselves as developed the practice is often urged because the children to come are disabled, or unplanned. Human life is never a burden.”
The pope argued that the root of the sin of abuse is “failing to respect the value of a person.” Here, Francis connects the dots to “another abuse of power”
“A mindset has been exposed: if they can have all they want, when they want it, why not take advantage sexually of vulnerable young women? The sins of the powerful are almost always sins of entitlement, committed by people whose lack of shame and brazen arrogance are stunning.” (My comment: Think of those who enable abortion, i.e. Biden and those who have abortions and who in any way provide them).
My greatest criticism of what the Holy Father says, is this quote from the interview because I can’t imagine that it applies to either McCarrick or Biden and it betrays Pope Francis Uber-progressive mentality that fails to call out the corruption that has entered liberal/progressive movements in the Church destroying religious life, especially that of women and brings about a decline in priestly vocations. Liberalism in the Church or progressivism allows a toleration of McCarrick/Biden types and for a very long time they are enabled despite their corruption and neither are rigid types, to say the least. THUS THIS STATEMENT FROM THE HOLY FATHER IS RIDICULOUSLY SKEWED AND HE SAYS IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN:
Among other points, Francis also reiterates his familiar criticism of movements within the Church that he calls “too rigid.” Through out the history of the Church, Francis said, “groups that have ended up in heresy because of this temptation to a pride that made them feel superior to the Body of Christ.”
“Rigidity is the sign of the bad spirit concealing something,” he says in the book. “What is hidden might not be revealed for a long time, until some scandal erupts.” There have been a fair share of these groups in recent years, “movements almost always marked by their rigidity and authoritarianism,” that presented themselves as restorers of Church doctrine, but “sooner or later there’ll be some shocking revelation involving sex, money, or mind control.”
4 comments:
Dear Father McDonald,
Our Pope Francis condemned the victims of predatory priests early in 2018, and later that year he called the critics of enabling bishops "Satan". Also in that year, the US bishops voted overwhelmingly (137-83) to cover-up the evidence of McCarrick's devious network of enablers, which might reasonably be thought to include many of them.
It seems our shepherds protect the vulnerable from predatory priests only when compelled to do so by journalists and attorneys.
I wonder, therefor, if it would be better for our pope and our bishops to let laymen take the lead for a while in speaking publicly against abuse in the secular sphere.
In Christ,
Dialogue
Using psychological nonsense language is another way to cover up, in the main, not the sexual abuse of women by errant bishops and other clergy but the abuse of young men and and seminarians. Shame!
It is wonderful to hear about this new book. Thank you for letting us know about it. I am very much looking forward to reading it.
In line with Anonymous 2, who is a tremendous, important contributor to Father McDonald's excellent blog, I look forward to reading the book in question.
I have been blessed abundantly via Pope Francis' holiness. I am thankful for the outstanding manner in which His Holiness has, with God's authority and guidance, taught, governed, and sanctified us.
With such a holy and great Pontiff as Pope Francis in Rome, and holy and outstanding priests, such as Father McDonald, gracing our parishes, Holy Mother Church proclaims the Good News to the world in holy, solid fashion.
It is a tremendous blessing to hold the True Faith.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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